Release engineering: enable Go Releaser on tags in Travis CI

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CLI used to create & build Flogo applications.

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Release engineering: enable Go Releaser on tags in Travis CI #114

Closed debovema closed 4 years ago

debovema commented 4 years ago

While the 0.9.1 is in RC, why not enabling Go Releaser to build binaries and put them in GitHub releases page ? Based on the branch of this PR I released a fake version on my repository simply by creating and pushing the v0.9.99 tag. Before that a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable with a GitHub token (with write:packages role) must be added in Travis CI.

skothari-tibco commented 4 years ago

So this just add binaries with the releases, right ?Are there any other reasons for having this?

debovema commented 4 years ago

Yes and it can also creates nice changelogs and release notes according to configuration. It's very straightforward for releaser as it is only a tag to create and push. For end users, it's easier to download a prebuilt binary sometimes. go get always pull the latest (unstable?) version and building a specific version from source implies to git clone, git checkout the right tag (after finding its name) and go install (pretty complicated for just the CLI).